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1996-10-04 - Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Message Hash: 48bdc2e659a0b59cfa4250bf5f7bf4a7ca6b9db56d91a430a5d6e1dbeecc9a3c
Message ID: <Pine.3.89.9610031804.A16004-0100000@netcom14>
Reply To: <199610040001.RAA15595@ohio.chromatic.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-04 13:03:55 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:03:55 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 21:03:55 +0800
To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?
In-Reply-To: <199610040001.RAA15595@ohio.chromatic.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9610031804.A16004-0100000@netcom14>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:

>   Sun Microsystems Inc. said Wednesday it received two contracts from
>   NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center worth a total of $100 million. The
>   Mountain View-based company said the pact calls for software
>   development and the design about 34,000 computer-aided engineering
>   and design workstations. NASA will use the workstations to design
>   integrated circuits.

34,000 Sun workstations? If any of the software designers from Sun are 
reading this, I would like to make a suggestion as to the screensaver 
that will ship with every workstation.

--Lucky

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